下面是Rails是如何做到的:

   def underscore(camel_cased_word)
     camel_cased_word.to_s.gsub(/::/, '/').
       gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
       gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
       tr("-", "_").
       downcase
   end

看看Ruby Facets的蛇案

处理以下情况，如下所示:

"SnakeCase".snakecase         #=> "snake_case"
"Snake-Case".snakecase        #=> "snake_case"
"Snake Case".snakecase        #=> "snake_case"
"Snake  -  Case".snakecase    #=> "snake_case"

来自:https://github.com/rubyworks/facets/blob/master/lib/core/facets/string/snakecase.rb

class String

  # Underscore a string such that camelcase, dashes and spaces are
  # replaced by underscores. This is the reverse of {#camelcase},
  # albeit not an exact inverse.
  #
  #   "SnakeCase".snakecase         #=> "snake_case"
  #   "Snake-Case".snakecase        #=> "snake_case"
  #   "Snake Case".snakecase        #=> "snake_case"
  #   "Snake  -  Case".snakecase    #=> "snake_case"
  #
  # Note, this method no longer converts `::` to `/`, in that case
  # use the {#pathize} method instead.

  def snakecase
    #gsub(/::/, '/').
    gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
    gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
    tr('-', '_').
    gsub(/\s/, '_').
    gsub(/__+/, '_').
    downcase
  end

  #
  alias_method :underscore, :snakecase

  # TODO: Add *separators to #snakecase, like camelcase.

end

当你有空格的时候，camelcase的简短的一行程序也包括在内(如果你有一个小的开头字母之间的单词，就不能正常工作):

a = "Test String"
a.gsub(' ', '').underscore
  
  => "test_string"

编辑:正如@dft指出的那样，这个方法不是Ruby的一部分，而是Rails的一部分。

有一个Rails内置的方法叫做“下划线”，你可以使用它来实现这个目的

"CamelCaseString".underscore #=> "camel_case_string" 

“下划线”方法通常可以被认为是“camelize”的逆方法。

你可以使用

"CamelCasedName".tableize.singularize

或者只是

"CamelCasedName".underscore

这两种方法都会产生“camel_cased_name”。你可以在这里查看更多细节。

接收器转换为蛇案:http://rubydoc.info/gems/extlib/0.9.15/String#snake_case-instance_method

这是DataMapper和Merb的支持库。(http://rubygems.org/gems/extlib)

def snake_case
  return downcase if match(/\A[A-Z]+\z/)
  gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/, '\1_\2').
  gsub(/([a-z])([A-Z])/, '\1_\2').
  downcase
end

"FooBar".snake_case           #=> "foo_bar"
"HeadlineCNNNews".snake_case  #=> "headline_cnn_news"
"CNN".snake_case              #=> "cnn"